Oh, man, today is one of those days where I feel like my blog is going to eat me up and spit out the bones. Yesterday was Photoshop Top 40, tomorrow is Martini Hour, I have to finish up my biweekly newsletter. And then, just to make me whimper, the incomparable Bert Monroy invites me back to his weekly Revision3 podcast “Pixel Perfect.” And when I say “whimper,” I mean whimper with joy.
(Check out the podcast above. Note that it starts with an ad or two. Including one with a couple of dorks and a half-dressed lady, the last of whom never really makes sense in the context of the odd narrative. Oh well, gotta pay the rent. Be patient.)
This is the second of three shows that I’ll be appearing on. (Last week, I cleaned up a dingy subway platform in Vanishing Point.) In this week’s show, Episode #140, “Masking with the Vanishing Point Filter,” I explain something I dare say few people have ever tried: I create a layer mask, in perspective, using Vanishing Point.
And that’s all I have to say. Just for larfs, here’s a still frame. In which I look shorter than Bert. Which is weird because I’m 6-10. Which is a lie. For the truth, watch the movie.
I guess…
It was quite understandable ;) The technique, I mean.
And I guess you have approx. 175 cm, which is I don’t know how many ft… ;)
Photoshop CS4 for Bio-Medical Imaging Geeks voting only at 4%
Sorry to comment off topic, but I can’t find a suitable place to make a general comment. Deke, the voting on preferences for your next video… poor poor medical imaging gets no votes. Although any topic would benefit from your thoroughness, insight, and whimsy, the other four topics are available all over the web. You’ve already done them great justice in your LYNDA.COM materials. What’s incredibly hard to find are updated insights on Photoshop’s analysis tools, treatment of dicom files, and other bio-medical uses. It’s nowhere. LYNDA.COM has some older information, but check it out- how much can you really change the world with another video on channel ops, blend modes, or adjustment layers compared to the life saving live changing good you could do by delving in to the unrecognized complexities of Photoshop’s bio-medical goodies?
Thanks for listening, and again, my apologies for being off topic. I loved the mask in perspective video, but would probably just command-click-drag a corner of the free transform tool on such a simple gradient.
I am in fact
exactly 175 cm tall. Amazing that you can tell that from a 3-inch tall podcast.
Do you also guess people’s weights and shoe sizes?
So many compelling arguments today
The “Bio-Medical Imaging Geeks” category is actually very interesting to me. I have plans to cover some portion of it next year (believe it or not, 2010 and 2011 are pretty well mapped out), and there may even be other avenues for exploring this material.
Thanks for your two cents. And for utterly crushing my soul with your last sentence. Somehow, the simple solution hadn’t quite occurred to me.
Photoshop top 40 on itunes
Deke,
Read your newsletter today. I’m glad to hear that Photoshop top 40 will soon be available on itunes as a regular podcast.
I watched a couple of Dekepod episodes the other day. You’re a great podcast host and I love your sense of humour.
I follow Bert’s podcast on a weekly basis and think it’s cool to see you there. You make a good team.
BTW, you look much taller on my 52 inches screen.
thats good news
THis is a good news to all photoshop lovers
Oh no…
Oh no, it looks like yesterday was actually my lucky day and I didn’t even realize it! Damn, what a shame… ;)
Good article! Thanks for
Good article!
Thanks for posting.
Good feeling
It’s must be a piquant experience to whimper with joy.
pixel perfect
just like the title it was done so perfectly…
True height
From what I just saw in the video, I’d say you are about, hmm, let’s say, 10ft. Just a great tutorial.